Long ago, during the early days of television, when a television set was turned off it took a while for the last image that was on the screen to fade away. This phenomenon is most like

a. iconic memory.
b. echoic memory.
c. working memory.
d. long-term memory.
e. semantic memory.


a. iconic memory.

Psychology

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Mitch recently graduated from law school and has been hired by a prestigious firm. In his first few days he is paired with Avery, a partner in the firm. Avery works with Mitch, gives him increasing amounts of responsibility, and makes sure that Mitch receives credit for his strong work. In this case, Avery is serving as a(n) ____

a. supervisor b. mentor c. vocational partner d. reality shock buffer

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Matthew's parents are concerned about the possibility that he might have either a hearing loss or autism spectrum disorder, as he has not learned to speak and is not responsive to their efforts to speak to him. Which of the following technologies might assist Matthew's physician in making an accurate diagnosis?

a. analysis of evoked potentials b. positron emission tomography (PET) c. computerized tomography (CT) d. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Psychology

Explain why warts are so easily transmitted

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The standard deviation

a. and the correlation coefficient of a sample are close in value. b. is inversely related to the range. c. measures the degree to which scores in two samples are correlated. d. is the square root of the variance. e. is calculated by squaring the variance.

Psychology